Sharjah Literature Authority has announced the selection of the Lebanese literary critic, Dr. Yomna Al-Eid (Hikmat Al-Sabbagh), the Cultural Personality of the Year for the 38th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair, which is held this year under the slogan (Open a book .. With the participation of 2000 publishing houses from 81 Arab and foreign countries.

Dr. Yomna Al-Eid, the owner of the Open Text, was chosen in recognition of her cognitive efforts during more than four decades of writing and writing in the Arabic literary text. .

The biography of Dr. Yomna Al-Eid tells the story of an institutional effort led by him alone, and culminated in a series of Arab and international awards and honors, where she won the Al Owais Cultural Foundation Award for 1992-1993, in the field of literary and critical research. "(1973)," The Social Significance of the Romantic Literature Movement (1979), "Issues in Culture and Democracy" (1980), "In the Knowledge of the Text" (1983), and "Narrator / Site / Figure (1986), «In the Poetic Say» (1987), «Marxism and the Philosophy of Language by Michael Bakhtin», «Techniques of Narrative Narrative» (1990), and «Writing Transformed And, an approach to literary writing during the Lebanese war »(1993), and« the art of the Arabic novel between the specificity of the story and the distinctiveness of discourse », and other studies.

On the selection of Dr. Yomna Al-Eid, Chairman of the Sharjah Book Authority, Ahmed bin Rakad Al Ameri said: «Celebrating the minds of Arab culture, literature and symbols is an integral and pivotal part of the efforts of the Sharjah International Book Fair. His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, has embarked on a major cultural project to promote Arab culture, build bridges of communication with the world, and open the horizon of thought, creativity and art to new generations. Novelists, poets, and pioneers in Arab civilization ».

Biography of Eid

The story tells the efforts of the founders of his own leaders, and was crowned with a series of awards and honors.